Bills Still Alive at the Legislature

>>We’ve passed an important marker in this year’s session of the NC General Assembly – the crossover deadline, which was last Thursday. By that day, any bill that isn’t a revenue measure, a budget measure, or a constitutional amendment must have been approved by at least one chamber of the legislature.

>>NC Public Charter School Board (Senate Bill 337) would create an independent board to manage charter schools, taking them out of the purview of the NC Department of Public Instruction. It would also remove state requirements that charter-school instructors hold teaching certificates.